Tuesday, October 01, 2024

The VP Debate Tonight

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I want to be clear with you and tour viewers," she told co-hosts Willie Geist and Jonathan Lemire. "This is almost a radical decision in its recognition of the right of women to control their body." 
"More importantly, to prevent against a sort of involuntary servitude or forced labor," she added. "There is a recognition that women are not as he says collectively owned community property. That they cannot be forced to carry a fetus before viability any more than you or I could be forced to give up a kidney." 
"That's a fairly radical conception of the right to abortion, and made a lot of women I know think, 'My god, this is the end of judicial gaslighting. There is somebody here who sees us,'" she concluded.
She’s not wrong; not at all.

But that is so close to the reasoning of the trimester division of Roe, upheld by Planned Parenthood, it almost deserves a law review article. And now that reasoning, fully 50 years old, it is now “radical.”

Fucking Overton Window.🪟 
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The View From Nowhere

I have no expertise on Israeli politics or policy. But it’s a truism that bread and circuses (by which the Romans meant blood sports in the circle (circus) of the Coliseum keep the polis happy, and a little blood and guts is a good booster of office holders. Again, this may have come to pass regardless of Israel’s recent actions. It it’s provoked by Iran needing to support its terrorists (no winners here). Or a cynical man might think Netanyahu was aiming for precisely this outcome. For his sake, not necessarily Israel’s.

Easy to see more than one side, if you look.👀 
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